John Q. Alabama Fan breathed a huge sigh of relief last week when Nick Saban finally signed his contract making him football’s version of Bill Gates and the King of Siam rolled into one. Saban is now officially the wealthiest college football coach in the nation, and he’s certainly royalty in the state of Alabama.Alabama…
Graveside services will be today at 2 p.m. at Wortham Cemetery for 42-year-old David Wayne Stewart of Woodland, who was killed in an automobile accident on Saturday night. According to the report from the Jacksonville State Troopers, the accident happened at approximately 8:50 p.m., 2 miles east of Wadley on County Road 33 near Beaver…
Political observers with whom I have talked this week believe recommended sentences of 30 years for Don Siegelman and 25 years for Richard Scrushy are above and beyond what is reasonable. Most point to the sentence of 30 months given Vice President Dick Cheney’s top aide, Scooter Libby, as what would be more in line…
Former Roanoke Police Chief Charlie Harris was sworn into the Mt. Cheaha Fraternal Order of Police Hall of Fame during the group’s annual seafood night on June 7. Harris retired as Roanoke’s chief with more than 30 years of dedicated service in his chosen profession of law enforcement. “He brought Roanoke Police Department into the…
Kesa Johnston joins two other Randolph Countians as the only attorneys from this county to ever serve on the Alabama Bar Association’s Board of Bar Commissioners. Johnston practices with Oliver Kitchens P.C. in Roanoke. Kitchens is the present bar commissioner until Johnston takes over July 1, while retired Circuit Judge Lewis Hamner is a past…
Letting plants and flowers in downtown planters die due to the drought situation seems absurd but it seems there are few still living to be concerned about. I have greatly enjoyed them, especially the roses, now apparently gone, in front of the old theatre. It was so beautiful. The issue came up in last week’s…
IN RE: NED COMILUS CLARK ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letter of Administration on the estate of Ned Comilus Clark, deceased, having been granted to Carolyn Clark on the 14th day of June, 2007, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage dated September 25, 2003, executed by CHARLES N. TAYLOR, to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”) Solely as nominee for PRESTIGE MORTGAGE CO. INC., which mortgage was recorded on October 3, 2003, in Mortgage Book 452, Page 768, of the…
RANDOLPH COUNTY PROBATE COURT NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET MARION RICHARDSON, DECEASED Letters Testamentary on the estate of Margaret Marion Richardson, deceased, having been granted to the undersigned on the 14th day of June, 2007, by the Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that…
Default having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured by that certain mortgage executed by Steve Daniel, an unmarried man, to Option One Mortgage Corporation on January 10, 2005, said mortgage being recorded in the Office of the Judge of Probate of Randolph County, Alabama, in Book 476, Page 139, and subsequently transferred…
(LAFAYETTE) Emma Juanita Hall Williams, 69, of LaFayette died Monday, June18, 2007, at her residence after an intense battle with cancer. Services will be Wednesday, June 20, at 11 a.m. CDT at County Line Baptist Church. Visitation will be Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Jeff Jones Funeral Home. Mrs. Williams was born Oct.1,…
IN RE: ETHLEEN M. SHEPPARD, DECEASED ADMINISTRATRIX’S NOTICE TO FILE CLAIMS Letter of Administration on the Estate of Ethleen M. Sheppard, deceased, having been granted to Karen Pogue on the 15 day of June, 2007, by the Honorable Judge of Probate of said County, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said…
IN RE: THE ESTATE OF BARTO G. MITCHELL, DECEASED NOTICE TO CREDITORS Letters Testamentary of said deceased having been granted to the undersigned on the 8th day of June, 2007, by the Honorable George Diamond, Judge of Probate Court of Randolph County, Alabama, notice is hereby given that all persons having claims against said estate…
(WOODLAND) Graveside services for David Wayne Stewart, 42, of Woodland will be Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Wortham Cemetery, with the Bro. Gerald Romine officiating. Mr. Stewart died Saturday, June 16, in Wadley. The family will receive friends on Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Benefield Funeral Home. Mr. Stewart is…
(LAGRANGE, Ga.) Russell Wayne “Bo” Parmer, 56, of LaGrange, Ga., died Saturday, June 16, 2007, at Hospice LaGrange. Mr. Parmer was born Aug. 17, 1950, in West Point, Ga., son of Ethel Parmer Mitchell and William Pinky Parmer. He resided in Houston, Texas, for 18 years, where he was a self-employed electrician. Mr. Parmer was…
(OXFORD) Services for Robert Loyd Bolt, 79, of Oxford, will be 1 p.m., Monday, June 18, 2007, in the Chapel of Miller Funeral Home and Crematory with the Revs. Jerry Bolt, Tony Thrower and Shelly Shew officiating. Burial will follow in Edgemont Cemetery. Mr. Bolt died Friday, June 15, at his residence. He is survived…
(HEFLIN ) The Rev. Loyd Monroe Lipscomb, 69, of Heflin, died Saturday, June 16, 2007, at Regional Medical Center, Anniston. He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Allen Lipscomb of Heflin; two sons, David Lipscomb of Ashland and Harold Lipscomb of Jacksonville; four sisters, Nettie Farrow of Huntsville, Connie Moore of Heflin, Jane Rice of…
(ARAB) Carolyn Wanda McCord of Arab died Thursday, June 14, 2007, at her residence. Graveside services were Saturday, June 16, at 1:30 p.m. at Brookwood Cemetery in Arab with the Rev. Greg Stone officiating. Mrs. McCord was born May 12, 1949, in Wedowee to William Heddie and Lonnie Bee Holloway Bowen. She was a homemaker.…
(WEST POINT, Ga.) Berthell Crane, 83, of West Point, Ga., died Friday, June 15, 2007, at her home. Mrs. Crane was born March 26, 1924, in Geraldine Ala., daughter of the late William Richard and Mamie Leola Webb Harper. She was a member of Pine Grove United Methodist Church in Opelika and the Friendship Sunday…
(WADLEY) Services for Lucille Quinn Elliott, 84, of Wadley, will be Friday, June 15, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Wadley First United Methodist Church with the Revs. Martha Sue Hauer and Bobby Burroughs and Marty Swartz officiating. Burial will follow at Wadley Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 5 to…